Presets – The Vintage Look

This week on Photoshop TV I did a Lightroom/Camera Raw preset tutorial. Part of the tutorial was creating a vintage-style look for your photos. It came out great and definitely adds a nice 70’s look to a photo. So I decided to create two Lightroom presets for it. One of them is simply the vintage look and will work fine in Lightroom 2 and Lightroom 3 Beta. The second one incorporates the same look but also the Grain setting which is only in the Lightroom 3 beta. As a general guideline I found these presets work best on photos with lots of blue in them (sky, water, etc…).

As always, your comments are welcome. Download ‘em and let me know what you think.

(Note: The Photoshop TV show that I’m referring to above may not be out until later on Monday)

To install:
1) Unzip the preset zip file on to your desktop
2) Go to the Develop module. NOTE: YOU MUST BE THE DEVELOP MODULE
3) Go to the Presets panel on the left. Right click anywhere in it and choose “Import”.
4) Select the .lrtemplate files you unzipped in Step 1 and click Import NOTE: DO NOT IMPORT THE ZIP FILE

Matt is the full-time Director of Education for Kelby Media Group and a Tampa-based photographer. He's the Editor-in-Chief of Lightroom Magazine, the lead instructor on the Adobe Photoshop Lightroom LIVE Seminar Tour and author of several best-selling Photoshop books. Matt also hosts the world's top Lightroom blog, LightroomKillerTips.com, where he's built up a massive library of Lightroom videos, presets and tips. In addition to teaching Photoshop, Lightroom and photography seminars around the world, he's an instructor at Photoshop World and one of the full-time staff writers for Photoshop User Magazine.

18 Comments

Hey Matt,
Awesome presets, just opened a whole new world for me in PP in Lightroom. Just downloaded most of your presets and I do have one preset suggestion you could probably add or work on. Just saw this billboard inside the GAP stores. ANd they have this pictures of people with blue jeans and everything else is in black and white. I think it was awesome hopefully, you can make a preset similar to that effect.
Thanks,
Paolo

Photography is funny. This how my scanned old slides looked and I spent lots of time bringing back the color shift. Now we are taking fresh pics and making them look old. Go Figure! I appreciate the time and effort you spend on this blog. I learn alot.

OK, it sounds as if there are selective installs on this one. I have both LR 2.7 and 3beta. Reading the narrative it sounded as if both could be installed to 3beta, but only 1 to LR2. After installing both to 3beta successfully, I ran 2.7 and found both already there. One day a preset should ONLY run on one and not the other. How in this multi-version world?